Race Swap | On the Media podcast #31Accessibility note: audio only. “Mikki Kendall is a writer who deals with an extraordinary amount of trolling and vitriol online. Mikki is a black woman in real life, and she created an experiment to see how her online life would change if she were a white man.” (July 17)

The Increasingly Poor Economics of Penning Problematic Stories | Kameron Hurley: “It was in this moment that I realized the true economics of what’s going to drive the storytelling change. See, it used to be the only media you could consume was the racist, sexist, homophobic sort.… But these days? Well, there’s a LOT of media out there, a lot of entertainment, and there are, increasingly, more diverse stories and choices we can make.” (August 9)

What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson | Zeynep Tufekci at Medium: “Ferguson is about many things, starting first with race and policing in America… It’s a clear example why net neutrality is a human rights issue; a free speech issue; and an issue of the voiceless being heard, on their own terms. I saw this play out in multiple countries — my home country of Turkey included — but last night, it became even more heartbreakingly apparent in the United States as well.” (August 14)

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